The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-21
BOUND TO DIE GROWING
THE PETITIONS FOR THE ANAR-
CrrISTS no BE MILD.


Their Friends Demand That They Be
Represented as Martyrs Instead of
Criminals-Justice Miller Explains
the Attitude of the United States
Supreme Court.
CHICAGO, Sept. 20--The committee hav-
ing in charge the circulation of the petitions
begging mercy for the condemned Anarch
lists, have concluded that the mild form of
prayer originally adopted, will not meet the
views of those who have an interest i'll the
subject, and consider the convicted seven as
not criminals, but as martyrs. To obtain
the signatures of such, the following has
been adopted and win be circulated in ad-
dition to the first designed petition;
To His ErcellencE Richard j. 03lesby, Gou
er1lor Of Illinois:
The undersigned, having watched with great
interest the progress OF events in connection
with and since the trial, in Chicago, of the so
called Anarchists, August Spies Michael
Schwah, Oscar Nenbe, Albert II, Parsons. Sam
uel Fielden, Adolph Fischer, Louis Lingg and
George Engel, and believing that the sentence
against them was and is unwarranted by
the evidence, extreme in its severity and in
duced by view of law never hitherto sane
toned by any wellconsldered precedent, and
that the accused were not shown to have been
guilty of throwing, or causing TO be thrown the
bomb at the so-called Haymarket meeting;
and, being advised In effect by state
ment of the prosecution in said cause
that these men were selected and proceeded
against simply because of their position as
leaders in the general labor agitation, which
seems to us as unwarranted, as it is injurious,
and is calculated to embitter wage-workers still
further against the present social
order, and believing that in
case of this kind humanity and
the State are better served by mercy than by
4l.a Il
of which is questioned by very many of our
people, respectfully protest against the execu-
tion thereof and bespeak in the name Of justice,
mercy and humanity the exercise by your ex
cellency of executive clemency in the cases of
these men.
TO WHOM THEY WILL APPEAL.
Justice Miller, of the United States Su-
preme Court, to whom the Anarchists pro
pose to present their case, was interviewed
to-day, and said: "Such a case is usually
taken before one of the Justices, and as a
rule before the Justice Of the district. In
this case Justice Harlan should be seen
He is not in Chicago now, but
some time. 1t is very rare
that cases of criminal nature come before
the Supreme Court, and when they do they
are usually cases where violation of the
Federal laws is charged IT is very rare
indeed, that the Supreme Court ever
touches case decided by a State court.
The Anarchists, to get their cases
before the Supreme Court must
prove that the constitutional rights of the
prisoners or Federal laws were broken in the
trial. / consider the case the most impor-
tant trial in this country for years Thase
fellows seem to have made Chicago their
headquarters They have more friends
here than anywhere else in the country"
REFUSED USE OF THE RECORD.
Capt William p. Black arrived in Otta-
wa last evening, and this morning appeared
before the Supreme Court and entered a
motion for leave to withdraw the
original record in the Anarchist
case for a period of thirty
days, saying he wished to submit it to his
associate counsel, who resides in New York
and then, if so advised, to submit the
record to the United States Supreme Court,
upon an APPLICATION for Il writ of
error After cohsultation the court
overruled the motion. The record contains
10000 words, and to copy it in short
time, Mr.. Black suggested, would take Il
score of type-writers.
BEGINNING TO WEAKEN.
An intimate friend of Nebee, the con-
demned Anarchist, said to-day that the
seven men who are condemned to hang have
begun to weaken, and that they now regret
that they did not show some repentance inn
mediately after the receipt of the news from
Ottawa a week ago. AS matter of
fact, at least four of the condemned men
have changed very materially during the
last forty-eight hours, and are now regret
ting that they did not throw themselves on
the benevolence and humanity of the
general public instead of stoicaily uphold
ing what they call the courage of their con
yictiOns